The Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears are gearing up for what is sure to be a tight contest this Saturday night in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs. If it’s anything like the first two matchups, it very well might come down to the final play. Of course, in the first game it was a Caleb Williams end zone interception by Keisean Nixon that sent the home fans home happy. Two weeks later in Chicago, it was a botched onside kick recovery by Green Bay that gave the Bears the opportunity to tie it up and then win it in overtime. Both games were as close as can be, and this week will likely be similar.

But when you look back on that second game in Chicago, the Packers had a few opportunities to really blow the door open but unfortunately were never able to. If they want to get out of Chicago as winners and advance to Seattle, they’ll need to fix their woes in the red zone and not have a repeat of game two.

In that game, the Packers went 0-for-5 in the red zone. In a contest that ultimately went into overtime, failing to capitalize on those missed opportunities was massive. Five times they got inside the Bears’ 20-yard line and ended up with zero touchdowns to show for it. The results of those five trips were getting stopped on fourth down on the opening drive (with a strange play call), a Josh Jacobs fumble on the 3-yard line, and three short Brandon McManus field goals. Five trips and nine points. The only touchdown they managed was a long pass from Malik Willis to Romeo Doubs. That’s simply too many points left on the field, and certainly in a playoff game, that’s going to get you sent home.

Beyond just their struggles in that game, it’s been more of a trend than a one-game anomaly. Through the first 13 games of the season, the Packers ranked second in the entire NFL in red zone efficiency. They scored a touchdown on 32 of their 47 trips, which is good for 68.1%. During those 13 games, the Packers looked borderline unstoppable once they entered the opponent’s 20-yard line. Since then, they have dropped all the way to 14th in the NFL. In their current slump, they have been scoring touchdowns at just a 58.9% clip (33-for-56). Is it a coincidence that since they started slumping in the red zone they have ended the season on a whimper with a four-game losing streak? Perhaps. If you asked offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich, he would likely agree.

“That’s certainly been our Achilles heel as of late,” he told reporters last week before the Vikings game. “When you’re talking about offensive production and scoring points, I think what we do in the red zone is extremely important. We had a couple of turnovers down there, so just things like that—where we get opportunities to score points and score seven points—we’ve got to make sure we do it, especially when you’re playing really good teams.”

So what’s behind the red zone blues? Yes, turnovers, as Stenavich alluded to. Jacobs cannot fumble the ball on the 3-yard line, but that’s not the biggest issue. The simplest answer is the play calling from Matt LaFleur. The Packers have mostly been calling run plays when down in the red zone. They have a 45.6% pass rate in the red zone this season, which ranks 24th out of 32 teams. Especially on second down, LaFleur seems to love to run it. Green Bay ranks 17th in red zone rush EPA on the season. That’s in the bottom half of the league, yet Matt seems to think that’s the best way for this team to score. This offensive line hasn’t been nearly good enough in the run game, and they have struggled throughout the season trying to establish themselves as a run-first team, so it may be time to try something different.

Instead, they need to put the ball in Love’s hands when it matters most, and that’s what they need to do on Saturday night when they enter the Bears’ 20-yard line. Jordan Love is first among all qualifying quarterbacks in the NFL in red zone EPA per play. The Packers have plenty of offensive weapons at Love’s disposal to draw up some creative plays. If you really want to get the ball in Jacobs’ hands, he’s a terrific option in the passing game, as he showed against the Denver Broncos when he mossed a defender and made a toe-tapping touchdown grab. After weeks of underwhelming red zone offense and overthinking how to get the ball into the end zone, the answer is simple: just let Love cook.

Maybe help is on the way. At practice on Wednesday, The Athletic’s Matt Schneidman spotted former offensive coordinator and former Denver Broncos head coach Nathaniel Hackett in attendance. Hackett is technically a consultant for the Packers on the defensive side of the ball, similar to the role that LaFleur’s buddy Robert Saleh held last year once he was fired as head coach of the New York Jets. The Packers’ red zone results when Hackett was the offensive coordinator were outstanding. Hackett famously referred to it as the “gold zone,” and during Aaron Rodgers’ back-to-back MVP seasons, the Packers ranked second and fifth respectively in red zone touchdowns. LaFleur has a great resource at his disposal this week, and hopefully he taps into it.

If the Packers want to survive another week and advance to play the top-seeded Seahawks in the divisional round, they cannot continue their trend of struggling in the red zone. In the playoffs, the margin for error shrinks enormously, and when you miss prime opportunities to put points on the board—and in the case of the game a few weeks ago, put an opponent away—you pay for it. It’s time for the Packers to get back to dominating in the “gold zone.”